Classic Rose Frame Card by Vicki Finger

Hi there and thanks for stopping by! It's Vicki here today. I wanted to work with some products from the most recent Memory Box Spring 2020 Collection so I pulled some papers and dies together to see what I could come up with for today's post.

I've been taking a Watercolor for Paper Crafters Class so I've been spending a lot of time practicing. I am so excited to be getting better and even finally put my paints into a palette! For me, that is a commitment - so I'm all in now. However, since I did a watercolor project for the previous two Fridays, I wanted to do something different for you today.

In the most recent release, there were several paper collections released in addition to stamps and dies. There's a beautiful patterned paper pad called "Springtime Bouquet" and as usual, while all the papers are beautiful, there's a certain one that tugs at my heart! Of course, it is this pink bloomed print that I just love. This particular paper pad has mostly softer, pastel colors and each sheet is double-sided with a different print on the reverse side. I really hate it when there's an especially loved print on both sides because then I have to choose. Haha!

I also used a sheet of the Glitter Paper from the Delicate Pastels Glitter Paper Pad. It is a very soft pink so to brighten it up, I used the chisel tip of a Copic Marker to add color to it. This works great and is easy to do. I really never use the chisel tip end for anything except this type of thing. You can also use that end if you want to quickly color in a white Prima Flower or other types of paper flowers to get an exact match. I did the same thing on a scrap of the same glitter paper to get the behind layer for the Flitter Side Butterfly. Like the Classic Rose Frame, I cut the butterfly from Gold Foiled Cardstock.

The classic Rose Frame has two thin frames and the smaller one has the rose as part of the die. There is also a coordinating die to cut the full rose shape out from a different cardstock. You could also die cut a second one and do die cut inlay. The paper I used for this was a scrap of leftover paper from one of my watercolor projects and it was just big enough to cut the shape from. I had used some light pink watercolor paint with some iridescent gold paint to create a wash, so that's why you see that little bit of shimmer on the rose.

For the Sentiment, I used one from Poppy Stamps (another Memory Box Company) called Greeting Basics along with a set of die, Colwell Label Set that works with the sentiments in this set. I was able to layer the dies which is super cool. I stamped on a piece of white cardstock, die-cut it and then cut the mat from a piece of glitter paper in the Twinkling Jewel Paper Pack.

I just love the font used for these sentiments so I asked Dave (our owner) if it was okay to use the sentiments from Poppy Stamps, one of our Sister Companies.

You could add more dimension to this style of a card by using foam tape or fun foam between each layer. Because I mail most of my cards, I try to keep the dimension to a postal "acceptable" level. The ones I don't mail, go to my sisters-in-law for their Holiday Goodie Bags and they mail them. For the butterfly, since it was on the label that I had popped up on fun foam, I did a double thickness of foam behind the wing to make it look right.

I added the base panel with the glitter mat and the Classic Rose Frame die-cut to a white, top folding card base and then added the other elements. I used my Rectangle Basics Dies to cut the background panels. Hint: When adding color to the glitter paper, there's no need to do the whole panel. I just went around about a half-inch all the way around the edge which was enough to cover up the rest of what I didn't color in.